Actors Riz Ahmed & Molly Gordon To Skip Locarno Due to SAG-AFTRA Strike
deadline.comThe Locarno Film Festival has clarified the situation with regards to which invited SAG-AFTRA members will be attending. Riz Ahmed & directorMolly Gordon will no longer be attending.
UK actor Ahmed, who was set to receive the Davide Campari Excellence Award will no longer be in attendance. His world premiere of Dammi (Yann Mounir Demange, 2023) will still take place on Opening Night in Piazza Grande to an audience of 8,000 as planned.
The screening of Mughal Mowgli (Mogul Mowgli, Bassam Tariq, 2020) in the Histoire(s) du cinéma section is also confirmed. Stellan Skarsgård, recipient of the Leopard Club Award, will forgo the award in solidarity with the strike.
He will be in Locarno for the screening of his new film What Remains (Ran Huang, 2022) in the Fuori concorso section. The Award ceremony on the Piazza Grande, August 4th, and the Conversation with the audience on August 5th have been cancelled.
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